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We constrain the post-Newtonian gravity parameter gamma on kiloparsec scales by comparing the masses of 15 elliptical lensing galaxies from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey as determined in two independent ways. The first method assumes only that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adam S. Bolton , Saul Rappaport , Scott Burles

In superfluid dark matter the exchange of phonons can create an additional force that has an effect similar to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). To test whether this hypothesis is compatible with observation, we study a set of strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-15 Sabine Hossenfelder , Tobias Mistele

In this paper we use a recently compiled data set, which comprises 118 galactic-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems to constrain the statistic property of SGL system, as well as the curvature of universe without assuming any…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jun-Qing Xia , Hai Yu , Guo-Jian Wang , Shu-Xun Tian , Zheng-Xiang Li , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Strong gravitational lensing (SGL) has provided an important tool for probing galaxies and cosmology. In this paper, we use the SGL data to constrain the holographic dark energy model, as well as models that have the same parameter number,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Jing-Lei Cui , Yue-Yao Xu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We investigate strong lensing by non-singular finite isothermal ellipsoids taking into account the influence of the matter along the line of sight and in the close lens vicinity. We compare three descriptions of light propagation: the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Jaroszynski , Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska

In this paper, we analyze the potential variation of the gravitational constant $G$ using data from strong gravitational lensing systems and Type Ia supernovae. Testing $G(z)$ parameterizations where $G(z) = G_0(1 + G_1z)$ and $G(z) = G_0(1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 R. F. L. Holanda , M. Ferreira , Javier E. Gonzalez

We use the cosmic shear data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey to place constraints on $f(R)$ and {\it Generalized Dilaton} models of modified gravity. This is highly complimentary to other probes since the constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Philippe Brax , Peter Coles , Luca Rizzo

In this work, by using strong gravitational lensing (SGL) observations along with Type Ia Supernovae (Union2.1) and gamma ray burst data (GRBs), we propose a new method to study a possible redshift evolution of $\gamma(z)$, the mass density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , Deepak Jain

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing of spherically symmetric black holes in the novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity surrounded by unmagnetised plasma medium. The deflection angle in the strong deflection limit in EGB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Xing-Hua Jin , Yuan-Xing Gao , Dao-Jun Liu

Screened modified gravity (SMG) is a kind of scalar-tensor theories with screening mechanisms, which can generate screening effect to suppress the fifth force in high density environments and pass the solar system tests. Meanwhile, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-14 Xing Zhang , Wen Zhao , He Huang , Yifu Cai

The $ \gamma $-spacetime metric is a static and axially symmetric vacuum solution of the Einstein equation. This spacetime represents a naked singularity and it has an extra parameter $ \gamma $ which signifies deviations from spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Yong Tang

In strong gravitational lensing, the multiple images we see correspond to light rays that leave the source in slightly different directions. If the source emission is anisotropic, the images may differ from conventional lensing predictions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rosalba Perna , Charles R. Keeton

In this paper, we study the cosmic constraint to $w$CDM model via $118$ strong gravitational lensing systems which are complied from SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys, where the ratio between two angular diameter distances $D^{obs} =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Jie An , Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

In this article we confront a class of $f(Q)$ gravity models with observational data of galaxy-galaxy lensing. Specifically, we consider the $f(Q)$ gravity models containing a small quadratic correction when compared with General Relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Qingqing Wang , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Wentao Luo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study moderate gravitational lensing where a background galaxy is magnified substantially, but not multiply imaged, by an intervening galaxy. We focus on the case where both the lens and source are elliptical galaxies. The signatures of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Mao , J. Wang , M. C. Smith

We use the statistics of strong gravitational lensing from the CLASS survey to impose constraints on the velocity dispersion and density profile of elliptical galaxies. This approach differs from much recent work, where the luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam N. Davis , Dragan Huterer , Lawrence M. Krauss

The analysis of strong lensing images usually involves an external convergence and shear, which are meant to model the effect of perturbations along the line of sight, on top of the main lens. Such a description of line-of-sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-04 Théo Duboscq , Natalie B. Hogg , Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena

We explain the effect of dark matter (flat rotation curve) using modified gravitational dynamics. We investigate in this context a low energy limit of generalized general relativity with a nonlinear Lagrangian ${\cal L}\propto R^n$, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrzej Borowiec , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Marek Szydlowski

We present updated constraints on modified gravity by including the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from CMB lensing-CMB temperature cross-correlations, based on the latest Planck PR4 maps. Utilizing the Effective Field Theory of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Anton Chudaykin , Martin Kunz , Julien Carron

Gravitational lensing shear has the potential to be the most powerful tool for constraining the nature of dark energy. However, accurate measurement of galaxy shear is crucial and has been shown to be non-trivial by the Shear TEsting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. M. Voigt , S. L. Bridle